$120m govt grant for battery materials refinery pulled


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The Industry department has retracted the $120 million grant it offered a proposed battery material refinery hub project in Western Australia more than a year after it was announced, plunging another $700 million of funding pledged by the previous government into doubt.

The pioneering critical minerals project led by Pure Battery Technologies (PBT) was announced as a recipient of the biggest grant from the Coalition government’s flagship manufacturing program last …

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